Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local OrganizingWhat do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors in both theory and practice has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the